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Show IT Battle Creek i'W' '? - .'J It could become a habit in time. Professor William James said that "any activity repeated over a long enough period," would become be-come just that. We went to the party for the Older Folks of this neck of the woods last Saturday. And a wonderful won-derful time it was, too. Saw dozens doz-ens of old friends, shook their hands and exchanged a lot of "how are you's." Anybody have anything more rewarding to suggest sug-gest than that ? The dinner, as usual, was bounteous boun-teous and delicious. Best of all the king-sized pieces of steak must have been cooked with the ov.-nors of "China clippers" in mind. The meat almost chewed itself. The innovation of the day was the awarding of the special designations desig-nations to the "oldest and the marriedest" made at table by sweetly rendered love songs. Beats climbing up a half-dozen stair steps all hollow. Would like to bet that the old stair-climbing routine rou-tine is now a thing of the past in Battle Creek. Getting back to our opening remark: re-mark: Seems like I have been go-in- to Old Folks parties, all of my life. I couldn't have been more than sr-von or eight when I attended at-tended the first one. . It was in the old Lindon Meeting Meet-ing House, long since demolished in the spirit of progress. Mae Richards (Mae R. Walker now) and I stood ot a couple of chairs a-'d stnj a duet, without benefit of accompaniment. Soon thereafter the old "Lin don Hall" was built and. the annual an-nual Old Folks activities were transferred there. Can't remember whether Mat and I teamed up at the new lo cation or not. But if we did i. wasn't for long. That treacherous "change "of voice" set in and I couldn't sing alto anymore. Anyway Mae continued to sing solo and I made the shift to giving giv-ing comic recitations and finally to playing the fiddle. Perhaps Lindon's most memorable memor-able Old Folks Day was the occasion oc-casion when C. R. Savage, George Margetts and John McDonald came down from Salt Lake City to attend. v C. R. Savage was the originator origina-tor of the Old Folks Day idea among the Mormon people in Salt Lake City. George Margetts was a topflight top-flight comedian from the old Salt Lake Theatre and John McDonald McDon-ald was a Pioneer hoedown fiddler from away back. That was a day to be remembered-and George's song "The Blow Almost Killed Father," brought down the house. And so it has gone over the years. Singing in quartets with Dolph Warnick, June West and Ashley Bartlett; clowning around with Irwin Jensen, Dan Peterson, Clarence Rollins and the "Battle Creek Hillbillies." Last year making the response in behalf of the Older Folks and this year sitting quietly as a guest among friends and neighbors. neigh-bors. That's right, it could become a habit. So long 'til Thursday. |